The Rumpless "Araucana" originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. True Araucana chickens are rumpless (tailless) and have a small curling tuft of feathers next to each ear. Easter Egg Chickens are different because they have cheek muffs, a full beard under the beak, & HAVE A TAIL! Cache Poultry offers for sale the Ameraucana "Easter Egg" chicken. The hatcheries I order from have a breeding program objective for the "Easter Egg Chickens": to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs. The color of their egg shells vary from pale blue to dark blue, to various shades of green and a few light brownish/pink eggs. Their meat is delicious and tastes like quail.

This chicken originated in the county of Sussex and is a very old English breed. The Speckled Sussex chicken was recognized as a distinct breed in 1914. The Sussex is a very gentle and colorful bird. This variety of the Sussex breed makes for a good backyard chicken and dual purpose for meat or egg production. This bird is a very good layer and handles confinement well. Their speckled coloring makes them blend in with the background and camouflages them from predators such as coyotes, and foxes. They molt every year & more speckles appear so they become even more colorful the older they get.

The Delaware is a dual purpose chicken with a single comb. Plumage is nearly white with black feathers around the neck and tail and the bird is a rapid grower. Origin comes from hatchery man crossing Rock-Reds and occasionally a white colored chick would be in a tray considered to be an “off color” or a “sport”. These white chicks grew very fast and big and after of years of breeding the white offspring they eventually became consistent with their color and color patterns and become a standard breed. In the 1980 and 1990 very few of these pure Delaware flocks still existed and just only in the last 15 years has this breed made a comeback.

immediately upon hatching. Females have dark, clearly defined lines around their eyes, and extending beyond the eyes, while the same line on males is indistinct and blurry. Females also have a clearly defined dark triangle on the tops of their heads and males have a less obvious,blurrier marking.

VERY RARE & EXOTICWELSUMMER

Origin: Welsum, NetherlandsSize:Temperament:

Easy going

Egg Production:GOODLayers Very Dark brown

"CHOCOLATE" eggs

Features:

Dual Purpose, yellow skin

Colors: Females are a lovely partridge color, and males have an intricate and beautiful coloring which includes a dark red across the saddle and bright green in the wings, as well as beautiful, black tail feathers. comb, wattle and earlobes are bright red